Yesterday was M.’s 9th birthday, her first since her father died. I tried my best to make it a good day for her, and I think it was. We got through the whole day without her being sad at all, which is good. I, of course, kept thinking about what he was missing, and how […]

Life changes fast. Life changes in an instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. The Year of Magical Thinking has been on my reading list since it first came out at the end of 2005, and I just hadn’t gotten around to reading it. In looking for books […]

As with most of us, I love the idea of reusing and recycling things that could otherwise just be useless. Pallets have been hugely popular over the years for the sheer variety of things you can do with them, either as a whole or by taking them apart. Reclaimed wood, especially barn wood, is just […]

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Planning isn’t doing.

I am planning on posting some crafts on Etsy. I have begun working on them, but haven’t completed any yet that are ready for sale. I have the store and a website ready and waiting, I just need to finish the crafts themselves.

One thing I was planning to do that I actually did was to melt down all M’s old broken crayons and make new shiny crayon “muffins” with them. They came out pretty and she has six new ones to play with. She likes them because she can shade a big area with the top or bottom, or color with the side. She’s been experimenting.

I really want the weather to be warm again. I have a room full of stuff that needs to go other places (thrift shop, books for the library book sale, etc) but it’s just too damn cold to be loading and unloading the car, especially with M. Let’s hope for Spring soon.